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T EMOND & A LABEE SPINNING OR TWISTING MACHINE.

vN0. 599,443. Patented Feb. 22, 1898.

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THOMAS EMON D AND ALPHONSE LABEE, OF BRUNSWICK, MAIN E, ASSIGNORS TO THE DRAPER COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE, AND IIOPEDALE,

MASSACHUSETTS.

SPINNING R TWISTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,443, dated February 22, 1898.

Application filed October 29, 1897. Serial No. 656,742. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, THOMAS EMOND and ALPHONSE LABFJE, of Brunswick, county of Cumberland, State of Maine, have invented an Improvement in Spinning or Twisting Machines, of which the following description, in

connection with the accompanying drawings,

is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Strands of fibrous material when being spun sometimes break between the usual delivery-rolls and the guide-eyes over the spindles and the loose ends will often, if not prevented, lap over and unite with other whole I 5 strands, so that the roving will run double,

making a larger yarn. The strands of roving usually run within two and a half inches of each other or thereabout, and to obviate the fouling or uniting of a broken and a whole strand separators can be interposed between the strands in front of the usual drawing or delivery rolls and between them and the usual guide-eyes. In our present invention the separators are mounted to recip 2 5 rocate laterally in unison with the traverse of the roving-strands, so that the separators maintain a uniform distance between the strands.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a sufficient 3o portion of a spinning or twisting machine to be understood, with one embodiment of our invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a like View of another form of our invention; and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line so to, Fig. 2.

Referring to Fig. 1, the roll-stand A, drawing or delivery rolls A the top roll-bearing A, and the traverse bar or rod B are and may be all of usual and well-known construction.

Suitable supports a are shown mounted in the top roll-bearing A for a red I), longitudinally movable on said supports, and a series of separators b are attached to said rod in front of the delivery-rolls and between them and the usual guide-eyes, (not shown,) the separators extending between adjacent strands c of roving. If a strand breaks, instead of fouling with or catching onto another strand and running double the separators prevent the fouling and enable the strands to run sepa rate each from the other.

I11 order to maintain the separators equidistant from the roving-strands during the traverse, we connect the separator bar I) with the traverse mechanism, and in Fig. 1 this connection is effected by means of an upturned bend-bar 6 extended over the rolls and attached at its ends to the traverse-rod B and the separator rod or barb, respectively. Motion of the traverse mechanism is thus communicated to the separators, and the latter are maintained at uniform distances from the roving-strands.

Instead of mounting the separator-rod on the top roll-bearing, as shown in Fig. 1, it may be mounted in suitable supports a (see dotted lines) on the roll-stand A, the separators being upturned, if necessary.

In Figs. 2 and 3 we have shown the separator-rod b as mounted in supports Z) on the clearer-cover O, the separators 19 extending down in front of the rolls and between the strands of roving e A bent strap H, extended over the clearer-cover, is downturned at the back and attached to the traversebar B A plate f, having a guide-slot f, is attached to the clearer-cover, the strap b passing through the slot and being guided thereby as the separators 'are reciprocated laterally by the traverse mechanism.

Our invention is not restricted to the con struction and arrangement herein shown, as the same may be modified or rearranged withp out departing from the spirit and scope of our invention.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Drawing or delivering rolls, a series of separators extending in front of the rolls, and 0 means to reciprocate said separators and thereby maintain them a substantially uni= form distance between the roving-strands.

2. Drawing or delivery ro1ls,a series of separators extended in front of the rolls between the roving-strands, and means, connected with the traverse mechanism, to reciprocate the separators and maintain them at a uniform distance between the roving-strands.

3. Drawing or delivery r01ls,a series of separators extended in front of the rolls between the roving-strands, a longitudinally-movable rod on which the separators are mounted, and connections between said rod and the traverse mechanism, to reciprocate the separators in unison with said mechanism.

4. Drawing or delivery rolls,a series of separators extended in front of the rolls between the roving-strands, a longitudinally-movable rod on which the separators are mounted, a

traverse-rod longitudinally movable back of I 5 the rolls, and a connection between the separator and traverse -rods and spanning the rolls, to move the separators in unison with the traverse of the roving-strands.

In testimony whereof we have signed our 2:: names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS EMOND ALPHONSE LABEE.

Vitnesses:

RUSSELL W. EATON, WESTON THOMPSON. 

